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Safety-critical systems are systems where failures lead to catastrophic results: resulting in loss of life, significant property damage, or damage to the environment. These systems range from aerospace on-board control systems, ground flight control systems, medical devices, nuclear power plants control, automotive systems, military systems, just to name a few. Other information systems are becoming...
People now use photo browsing, photo and video slideshow, and illustrated text to share stories about their lives in pictures, however, these popular mediums are far from perfect. Some are not expressive enough for sophisticated storytelling, while others inevitably have a high usage threshold and involve a great deal of efforts. In this paper, we propose a framework for comic-based computer-aided...
This paper proposes a software framework for system integration in developing a dual-arm robot. In our project, the target dual-arm robot has flexibility with several functions compared to conventional industrial robots and a software framework should be designed to integrate each component effectively. The proposed software framework is composed of several layers, i.e., a control layer, a robot language...
Many of the geospatial data sets used in the MSP process already exist or can be compiled with minimal effort and coordination, however the lack of data representing human use, or the socioeconomic dimension of coastal and marine resources, is well documented and accepted by MSP planners. Called the “missing layer”, the human dimension of the marine environment has been used only sparingly in the...
Teaching first-year students is a balance between introducing technical content and providing perspective for students to forge connections to the context of what engineers do. Making the possible impact of engineers real and visible to introductory students in an authentic manner can be challenging. This paper describes the implementation and impact for a Traffic Simulation engineering design challenge...
Human resource allocation is one of the main tasks in software projects, they are determinant in the project quality and success. In this context, this paper presents a qualitative research about human resource allocation conducted in seven companies of different sizes and organizational contexts. The objective of this research is to identify the criteria used by managers to perform the allocation...
Software developers have long been supported by a variety of tools, such as version control systems (e.g., GIT), issue tracking systems (e.g., BugZilla), and mailing list services (e.g., Mailman). These tools accumulate a wide range of information that is recorded in the repositories these tools store their data in. This information is comprised of two significantly different types of data: structured...
To date, many studies have been carried out with regard to the degree of harmony of a chord. As those studies have been based on the semitone of a Western musical scale, the case of very small frequency difference has not been investigated yet in detail. Not as music theory, but considering the application to a human interface etc., it is meaningful to investigate how small change of the frequency...
Acoustic Resonance Testing (ART) is a nondestructive test that uses the vibrational characteristics of an object to find defects. It is a whole-part test, so measurements taken in one place can indicate defects anywhere. It can be done quickly and requires minimal equipment. ART can be completely automated and make objective, quantitative judgments, eliminating human error. ART uses the fact that...
We have been studying the creativity-centered media to ensure that systems truly support creative and intelligent human activities. However, it has gradually become obvious that current advanced support systems have a serious drawback: instead of promoting creative work, they often discourage creativity or let us stop thinking. In this paper, we focus on the 3D sketch system that supports the design...
The scope of this article is to compare two methods to extrapolate the water content of human tissues from magnetic resonance imaging. Two different approaches to gain the same goal will be outlined and discussed in order to draw a roadmap for subsequent studies and refinements which will lead to dielectric properties finding.
An integrated micro-biomanipulation system that can perform mind-controlled biomanipulation at micro scale is presented in the paper. The system incorporates a non-invasive electroencephalogram (EEG) device with a high-precision automated micromanipulator through high speed network. The human manipulation mind measured by the EEG can effectively drive the micromanipulator to perform the 2-D manipulation...
Unit testing of legacy code is often characterized by the goal to find a maximum number of defects with minimal effort. In context of restrictive time frames and limited resources, approaches for generating test cases promise increased defect detection effectiveness. This paper presents the results of an empirical study investigating the effectiveness of (a) manual unit testing conducted by 48 master...
We combine a method for designing composite image filters with interactive genetic programming (IGP). Human subjective tests are used to comparitively evaluate the IGP-based filter design method to a manual filter design method and the multi-stage filtering feature of a software photo-retouching program. The composite image filter has a tree structure, with its nodes consisting of multiple simple...
When a lot yield is low, we used to survey the related APC data whether it shows the abnormal signal and could be detected early to minimize the yield loss. And now, we propose to identify the yield impact by using the abnormal data detected by checking the trend or from the frequency alarm of FDC. Then we'll know the importance and share with the module as a lesson learned.
How do organizations know they are designing products and services that their customers will value? This paper describes the initial results of the first four stages of a methodology for integrating customer Values in Experience design (ViEx). The theory of universal value structure was adapted to examine customer values in two contexts: online interaction (N=725) and shopping experience (N=742)....
Emergency management is one of the most important areas where the opportunities of new techniques and technologies should be used. Emergency management is a special case of management where involved people have to act decisively within tight time schedules with often incomplete information. Information flow in emergency cases is as many as in usual situations, generally irregular and lacks in reliability...
Uses CAPTCHA in web page can to a certain extent, to resist the attacks from network. But many sites using the CAPTCHA is based on the English or the digital characters, and only adopts a simple deformation treatment, safety not guaranteed. The Chinese CAPTCHA in upper case characters, and adding noise, deformation processing, the machine automatically recognizes the very difficult. The experiment...
Centered around the model of ESDDM, a software evolution process model based on evolution behavior interface, and the knowledge of component classification and component retrieval evaluation, this paper furthered previous work by proposing a component reusability evaluation method based on fuzzy mathematics. The method provides an effective way of evaluating the reusable ability of a certain component...
This research proves that in an undergraduate Basic Digital Technology course, communication between teachers and students can be increased through the use of feedback comment sheets, which is effective in performing conceptual teaching. With the use of conceptual teaching, students become more active towards learning, gaining intrinsic motivation and confidence as they communicate more with the teacher...
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